Profit Quotes (page 16)

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• marketing
• attention
• genius

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. Todd Gitlin

• gratitude
• revenge
• profitable

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. Edward Gibbon

• people
• terms
• function

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better. Carlos Ghosn

• profitability
• operate
• industries

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. Paul Getty

• life
• good
• sharing

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune. Dick Gephardt

• kindness
• understanding
• logic

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands. Susan George

• justly
• unjust
• harming

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one. Henry George

• change
• evening
• profitable

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. Harry Emerson Fosdick

• business
• busy
• absolution

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. Henry Ford

• charity
• specifics
• lives

Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things. Jon Fishman

• love
• people
• driving

The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV. John Sununu

• new
• helpful
• help

It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up. William Graham Sumner

• letting
• would
• merchant

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants. Peter Stuyvesant

• health
• cover
• today

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less. Dianne Feinstein

• world
• borne
• acquired

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit. Sam Ewing